Namita N. Manohar

Namita Manohar is a qualitative feminist sociologist with broad interests in sociology of families, (im)migration and the intersections of gender, race and ethnicity. Her emerging interests, connected to her ongoing research on Catholic interfaith marriages in Mumbai, India, include the sociology of religion, and secularism & the state.

She has researched extensively on Indians in the United States. Some of her previous projects include a gendered ethnic perspective on partnering among Indian-Americans, an ethnographic study of immigrant Indian professional women's gendered subjectivities around work and mothering in the US., and on scholarship on teaching and learning in sociology.

Manohar teaches courses in gender, work, work and family, introductory sociology and senior seminar. She teaches from a gendered and intersectional perspective. She served as the Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program (2009-12), and as the Graduate Deputy in Sociology (2013-17).

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Books and Publications

Manohar, Namita N. Review of Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States. By Samira K. Mehta. eSocialSciences. August 1, http://www.esocialsciences.org/Articles/Show_Article.aspx?qs=Q9lVWWbSwFtVGoJFoqmz5cYDWipblkDn/jbJGZXULq8yqp4UmKhERQ4Zf9QWJGQC/dfoBZ2yI4wAFMDXoa7V3Q== (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2018

Killian, Caitlin, and Namita N. Manohar. "Highly-Skilled Immigrant Women?s Labor Market Access: A Comparison of Indians in the United States and North Africans in France." Social Currents, 3(2): 138-159. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016

"'Yes You're Tamil, But Are You Tamil Enough?' An Indian Researcher Interrogates 'Shared Social Location' in Feminist Immigration Research." International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, Special Issue on Mixed Methods in Genders and Sexualities Research 7.2: 189-203. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013

"Mothering for Class & Ethnicity: The Case of Indian Professional Immigrants in the United States." Pp. 161-187 Advances in Gender Research: Notions of Family. Eds. M. Kohlman, D. Krieg and B. Dickerson. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 161-87. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013

"Introduction: Women and Economics -- A Study of the Economic Relations Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman." People, Power and Politics 11th ed. Boston: Pearson. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011

Manohar, Namita N. and Erika Busse-Cardenas. "Valuing 'Good' Motherhood in Migration: The Experiences of Indian Professional Wives in America and Peruvian Working-Class Wives Left Behind in Peru." Journal of the Motherhood Initiative 2.2: 176-96. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011

"Gender & Ethnicity in Union Formation: The Case of Second-Generation Patels." The International Journal of Sociology of the Family, Special Issue on Intersectional Analyses of the Family for the 21st Century, 34.2. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

PSC-CUNY Enhanced Research Award, City University of New York. "Interfaith Marriages among Catholics in Urban India." Principal Investigator. 2017-2018 (Grants and Fellowships) 2017

New Faculty Fund Grant, for "Life at the Crossroads: Queering South Asian-ness in America." (Grants and Fellowships) 2010

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

Killian Caitlin, and Namita N. Manohar. "Barriers and Pathways to Skilled Immigrant Women's Labor Market Access: A Comparison of Indians in the U.S. and North Africans in France." Invited Panel on "Gender Through a Global Lens." Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

"Family Bargains, Playing House & Becoming Professionals: Gendered Strategizing of Family Migration by Indian Women in the U.S." Invited Workshop on ?Problematization of Family Migration. University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015

"Mothering Culture in the Context of Immigration: The Case of First-Generation Immigrant Women." Invited Panel on the 'Politics of Cultural Production in Post-1965 Migrant Communities.' Immigrant America Conference: New Immigration Histories from 1965 to 2015, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015

"Highly Skilled Immigrant Women's Labor Market Access: A Comparison of Indians in the United States and North Africans in France." International Sociological Association. Yokohama, Japan. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

"Social and Economic Incorporation of Indian Immigrants at the Nexus of Gender and Visa Regime: Focus on H-1B Visas." Invited Panel on 'A Foot in Each World: South Asian Diaspora Communities in the United States and Their Interactions with Their Homeland.' Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, New York, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014

"'Yes You're Tamil, But Are You Tamil Enough': An Indian Research Interrogates 'Shared Social Location' in Feminist Migration Research." American Sociological Association. New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

"'Oh! At Home, It?s All Based on Skills, Or Is It?' Gender and Household Dynamics in Professional Indian Immigrant Families in America." Invited Panel on 'Transnational Approaches to Gender.' Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"Mothering for Class & Ethnicity: The Case of Indian Professional Immigrants in the United States." 1st International Family and Consumer Sciences Congress. Antalaya, Turkey. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

"Food, Music & Dance: Reinterpretations of Motherhood by Tamil Immigrant Professional Women in Atlanta." Invited Panel on 'A Gender Lens on Cultural Contradiction and Change Among Globalized South Asians.' Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010